Sherm couldn’t quite see the connection.
“Well, what’s so funny about that?”
“Will you cross your heart never to tell, Sherm? Frank and Ernest would tease the life out of me if they knew.”
“Cut my heart out and eat it, if I ever breathe a word.”
Chicken Little related the swearing episode which she had not seen fit to trouble even Marian with, at home. “I guess,” she concluded, “he felt sort of sorry for me right at the start and that made him like me.”
“’Twouldn’t be such a hard job as you seem to think, Jane,” Sherm surprised himself by saying.
Chicken Little flushed and looked up hastily at Sherm who also felt his face getting warm to his great disgust. Sherm hated softies of any kind.
“Oh, I believe there’s the Captain now over by the pasture fence.”
Captain Clarke was riding round the pastures inspecting 110the barbed wire fencing. He soon hailed them.
“Hello, Little Neighbor, is the piebald behaving himself?”